Apple began the hype machine spinning tales of Jaguar (the next release of OS X) Monday when it announced the developers will be treated to demonstrations of Jaguar at the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference in May. The boys over at The Reg estimate that Jaguar can't be released any later than Fall, when many of these developers will head back to school. Jaguar is rumored to do all sorts of things, but most importantly it corrects a few glitches in the UI and generally speeds things up a bit. It is also rumored that folder navigation will be re-tooled to more closely resemble the classic method. I have even heard the words “springloaded folders.” Read the Apple press release, and The Register article. By the way: 10.1.4 was released on Thursday.

Do 'springloaded folders' and 'drag-and-drop printing' require application developers to adjust their code for these features? Hmmmmm.

If their code doesn't require substantial adjustments for these UI features, then why preview Jaguar at a developers conference?

Could it be that Apple has something new under the hood rather than ornamental to show programmers? What might that be? Journalling? Doubt it that would be an incredibly rapid development. What then? – by Eirik

Naa Eirik(1:34am EST Sat Apr 20 2002)I doubt there's much to it. Apple just likes to dazzle whenever there's a keynote. Apple developers are such “functionality whores” they're gonna eat the new UI features right up. I bet there's some significant speed tweaks involved in different areas, not much more. We'll see. – by MacJedi